P. Fontes da Costa, “Geographical Expansion and the Reconfiguration of Medical Authority: Garcia de Orta’sColloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (1563), Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, 43 (2012): 74-81.

P. Fontes da Costa,“The Introduction of the Linnean classification of nature in Portugal”, in B.-L. Gunnarsson (ed.) Languages of Science in the Eighteenth Century (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyer,2011), pp. 231-248.

P. Fontes da Costa, “Women and the Popularisation of Botany in Early Nineteenth Portugal: The Marquesa de Alorna´s Botanical Recreations”, Faidra Papanelopoulou, Agustí Nieto-Galan and Enrique Perdiguero (eds.), Popularisation of Science and Technology in the European Periphery (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009).

P. Fontes da Costa, “The Medical Understanding of Monstrous Births at the Royal Society of London during the first half of the Eighteenth Century”, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 26 (2004): 159-177.

P. Fontes da Costa, “Mediating Sexual Difference: The Medical Understanding of Human Hermaphrodites in Eighteenth-Century England”, in Willem de Blécourt and Cornelie Usborne (eds.), Cultural Approaches to the History of Medicine. Mediating Medicine in Early Modern and Modern Europe (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), pp. 127-147.

P. Fontes da Costa, “The Making of Extraordinary Facts: Authentication of Singularities of Nature at the Royal Society of London in the Eighteenth Century”, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, 33 (2002): 265-288.

P. Fontes da Costa, “The Culture of Curiosity at the Royal Society during the first half of the Eighteenth Century”, Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 56 (2002): 147-166.

P. Fontes da Costa, “The Understanding of Monsters at the Royal Society in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century”, Endeavour 24 (2000): 34-39.